Another good use for vhdmount, mounting Vista backups

Virtually Left Behind

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:10:15 GMT

You know, there has been a lot of controversy lately (from developers I respect who should know better)

Speaking of VHDMount...

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:20:08 GMT

The VirtualPC Guy posted this ROCKIN tip on how to associate VHDs with VHDMount. The result is double-click

Speaking of VHDMount...

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:31:49 GMT

The VirtualPC Guy posted this ROCKIN tip on how to associate VHDs with VHDMount. The result is double-click

Speaking of VHDMount...

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:32:11 GMT

The VirtualPC Guy posted this ROCKIN tip on how to associate VHDs with VHDMount. The result is double-click

Vista Backup e VHD mount

PuntoRete — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:33:18 GMT

re: Another good use for vhdmount, mounting Vista backups

Bill Milner — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:09:10 GMT

Michael - I am in a vista jamb. My machine is booting to a blank screen with cursor and I have a perfectly good Vista back-up that is not being recognized that could save me a reinstall. Is there anyway to use the vhdmount from a pe disk and mount the VHD file? Not a real tech guy but I have some knowledge of windows.

Bill

re: Another good use for vhdmount, mounting Vista backups

michael.greene — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:48:12 GMT

It sounds like there may be more issues at play here, possibly a bad drive?

To more directly answer your question, I doubt PE can load VHDmount since the installation requires driver install and a reboot, however you could use vhdmount to access the backup file from another machine.

re: Another good use for vhdmount, mounting Vista backups

AlexJ — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:35:33 GMT

The original reg file has a problem while unmounting under HYPER-V Systems. This script dismounts either with commit or discard data.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell]

@="Mount"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Discard]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Discard\command]

@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\" /d /u \"%1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Commit]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount - Commit\command]

@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\" /c /u \"%1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Mount]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Mount\command]

@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\" /p \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vhd]

@="Virtual.Machine.HD"